Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied for admission to the school were let in, provided only that they held college degrees, it was necessary to weed out a large portion of each class at the end of the first year, a portion sometimes running up to thirty percent of the enrolment. The result of this drastic cut, despite the fact that it allowed the University to collect tuition fees for a year from the men whom it could take to the completion of their training, meant carrying along a large amount of the dead wood for a whole year in the classes...
...University Doubles and the University Singles B tournaments have been discontinued. In the past three years it has been necessary to start the Doubles at least a week later than the Singles tournaments, with the result that the tournament remained unfinished. This fall with an increase in the number of singles tournaments, the doubles would suffer a great deal more than in the past. With the added tournaments the Singles B tournament appears to be unnecessary for the House tournaments will easily absorb these formerly interested in the Singles...
...immigrant Author Adamic's subject, lacking the autobiographical ties which have stimulated him in writing his previous books, handicaps him. As with The Native's Return, his best-selling account of a revisit to his native Yugoslavia, Author Adamic wrote The House in Antigua as an accidental result of a pleasure trip to Guatemala in 1936. His original purpose was merely "to get away from it all." He picked Antigua, former capital of Guatemala, because friends rhapsodized over its ruins, and because he "had long been responsive to these lines in the second act of The Mikado...
...Antigua for the last 400 years, a mostly imaginary picture of the conquistadores who tenanted the Casa del Capuchino, a biography of the Popenoes, centring on capable Dorothy Popenoe, who supervised the main work of restoration until her death in 1932 from an attack of appendicitis, aggravated as a result of having eaten a tropical fruit (akee) being grown experimentally by her husband...
...enough students to fill their halls, and hence resort to underhanded practices, from fraudulent advertising to downright kidnapping, to lure the youth of the land inside their gates. The cause of this condition is a lack of enough men with brains to fill the existing colleges, and the result is a change in the emphasis of college from an atmosphere of learning to country club life...